Questions: Frontline: The New Asylums
Watch the video online at https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/showsasylums/
It is about 55 minutes long.
Then answer the following questions in full sentences, and upload the document to Blackboard by
TH 12/15/16 at 11:59 pm.
If all of your answers are correct, you can earn ½ a grade increase in participation (which can help balance out absences or lateness).
1. How did so many mentally ill people end up in state prisons?
2. Why do mentally ill inmates end up in maximum security facilities?
3. Why can’t people in prison find long-term commitment in a mental health facility?
4. How does segregation in prison affect the mentally ill?
5. What is the argument against improving mental health care in prison?
watch the video on the link and answer the five questions based on the video
